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Halloween Horror

Immerse yourself in spooky season with spine-chilling tales for the witching hour!

21 Items

Up In Smoke
1. The Fire
A devastating house fire kills a teenage boy, but police find no body in the ashes.
10 Jun 2025,21 mins
Assume Nothing
A Belfast Haunting
Episode 1: The House
Summer, 1989 – rumours spread about strange events in a terraced house in West Belfast.
19 Oct 2024,13 mins
Drama on 4
Shard
Atmospheric folk horror about communes, nature and the price that must be paid.
10 Jul 2023,44 mins
Voices in the Valley
1: The Barrowbeck Survey
Maxine Peake kicks off ten chilling strange tales from the folk-horror author of The Loney
30 Oct 2022,14 mins
The Haunted Library
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Part One.
Lawyer Gabriel Utterson hears a troubling tale about a man named Hyde...
21 Sep 2026,38 mins
Daphne Du Maurier
The Birds
The natural world turns on mankind as a war veteran's family are attacked.
26 May 2007,60 mins
The White Lady of Morecambe by Jenn Ashworth
1. The Drowned Shore
Julie Hesmondhalgh begins Jenn Ashworth's 5-part ghost story set in the very near future.
02 Feb 2026,14 mins
Mabinogi: Lost Legends and Dark Magic
1. Beyond the Forests
Fantasy podcast series, based on the ancient myths of Wales.
01 Jul 2021,13 mins
Fear in the Furrows
Exploring the darker side of the landscape and the revival of Folk Horror in the arts.
31 Oct 2019,28 mins
EF Benson - The Terror by Night
Inexplicable moods and smells mar a friendly reunion. What can it mean? Read by Brian Gear
23 Sep 1993,15 mins
Witch
Witch: 1. The Spark in the Fire
India Rakusen finds out what it means to call yourself a witch today.
27 mins
DEADHOUSE
1. BETHLEHEM
Unable to move or speak, you listen as your fate is determined by petty bureaucrats.
21 mins
The Villa Forgotten by Jeanette Winterson
Episode 1
Toni inherits a house, filled with shadows of the past. Written by Jeanette Winterson
07 Sep 2026,13 mins
Vidya Wade by Timothy X Atack
Episode 1
Maya thinks they've got a ghost. Written by Timothy X Atack; read by Amanda Lawrence.
10 Feb 2025,14 mins
The Battersea Poltergeist
Episode 1: 63 Wycliffe Road
Strange events start at an ordinary house in South London. Is it a poltergeist?
21 Jan 2021,28 mins
Of Withered Apples by Philip K Dick
As its last withered fruit is picked, a dying ancient apple tree is determined to survive.
09 Sep 2003,30 mins
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Chapter 1
Henry James’ chilling novella about a governess and two children on a haunted estate.
01 Nov 2019,10 mins
The Price of Fear
Blind Man's Bluff
Chilling tale of an eerie passenger who joins Vincent Price on a train heading west.
04 Oct 1975,30 mins
Weird Tales
Series 3
Night Terrors by Lizzie Nunnery
Victoria can't sleep at night. Then bad dreams haunt her waking hours.
29 Dec 2011,30 mins
Twenty Minutes
A Warning To The Curious by M.R. James
Alex Jennings reads M.R. James' ghost story set on the windswept coast of East Anglia.
13 Jun 2011,20 mins
HG Wells
Ghost Stories by HG Wells
The Stolen Body
When a researcher experiments with astral projection, an interested party intervenes.
30 Jun 2017,15 mins